Putin’s excuse for a referendum is wrong: Crimea isn’t Kosovo – at all (The Guardian)
Moscow and its defenders have been eager to throw a precedent back in Washington’s face. Time to call bull Contrarians and critics of American foreign policy like to play a game called Less Hypocritical Than Thou. The rules are simple: Rule No 1: seek out the narrative about a global crisis triggered by some “bad” […]
Read More →Rašić submitts documents for registration of a new party (KIM radio)
Minister of Labor and Social Welfare in the Kosovo government Nenad Rašić yesterday submitted documentation for registration of a new political party ‘Progressive Democratic Party’ to Central Election Commission (CEC) of Kosovo. ‘Progressive Democratic Party’ will, fore and foremost, be the party of moderate Serbs, of the political orientation which will bring more wisdom, tolerance, […]
Read More →Albanians usurped monastery property (RTK2)
Albanian family has usurped monastery land, reported Monastery St. Vrača in Zočište/Zoçishtë and stressed that verbal provocations against monks has continued as well. Monastery St. Vrača in Zočište/Zoçishtë near Orahovac/Rrahovec yesterday reported that an Albanian family has usurped the Monastery parcels and that verbal provocations against monks has continued. In the handout forwarded to Tanjug agency […]
Read More →IfK: Northern municipalities constitution, in contradiction with Kosovo’s Constitution and Law (Koha online)
Endorsement of the statutes for the northern municipalities of Kosovo, is in contradiction with the Constitution and Law on municipalities. The press release of the Initiative for Kosovo (IfK) stresses that as concluded by the representatives of the Ministry for Local Government, which monitored this process, the statutes are in contradiction with the Law on […]
Read More →Darko Saric arrested (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – A joint operation carried out by Serbian and Montenegrin authorities ended early Tuesday with the arrest of runaway drug lord Darko Saric, TV Pink reported. The sensitive, carefully planned operation was conducted by the two countries’ ministers of justice, Nikola Selakovic and Dusko Markovic. The Serbian Prosecutor’s office for organised crime has raised […]
Read More →Serbs’ suffering in Kosovo still ongoing (Tanjug)
Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej said on Monday, commenting on the 10th anniversary of the pogrom against the Kosovo Serbs, that the suffering of the Kosovo Serbs was still ongoing. The suffering in Kosovo comes at a time when we pride on democracy and freedom, he said at a forum held at the National […]
Read More →Dacic dropped Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) have made a convincing victory in Kosovo and Metohija, where the balance of political power redesigned in relation to the 2012 elections. Progressives have more than doubled the performance from two years ago, when it was in second place and now has triumphed with 51.3 percent of the votes. The Socialists […]
Read More →The explosion in Kosovska Mitrovica, no injuries reported (Tanjug)
In the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica early this morning was thrown an explosive device. Regional Head of Operations of the Kosovo Police, Željko Bojic told Tanjug that the explosion occurred this morning, a little after three hours, in Vlada Ćetković street when an unknown person activated probably a hand grenade. “This morning, at three […]
Read More →Pristina gives in to Bogovac (Zeri)
The General Directorate of Kosovo Police in Pristina has given in to tremendous pressure and threats coming from Serbs in Zubin Potok who blocked the regional highway on Monday demanding Jugoslav Bogovac, deputy commander of the police station in Zubin Potok, return to work. Reliable sources told the paper that the General Directorate annulled Bogovac’s […]
Read More →Northerners a term for 30 days to improve statutes (dailies)
Ministry of Local Governance gave a term of 30 days to northern municipalities inhabited with majority of Serbs to make changes in municipal statutes. The approved statutes on the 13 March legal deadline were in contradiction with the Kosovo Constitution and with the law for local governance. Except that it had avoided symbols and the […]
Read More →Thaçi does not trust Petrovic any more (Tribuna)
A senior Government official told this daily that the relations between Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi and Deputy Prime Minister Slobodan Petrovic have become distant. The same source told this daily that this happened after Petrovic got very close to Thaçi’s rivals in Brussels, respectively after he reached an agreement to support his party’s votes, that […]
Read More →Fear from Vucic’s victory (Koha Ditore)
In the front page Koha Ditore, reports detail the convincing victory of Progressive Party in the elections in Serbia that brought back the fear in Kosovo that Belgrade will increase its ambitions towards Kosovo. The opposite is expected from the north inhabited mainly by Serbs. Aleksandar Vucic’s party received almost half of the votes from […]
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